Ifs Quote by Michael Frayn Download Open image “If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.” — Michael Frayn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Learning Lions Speak
“The lion is not easily distracted by the mindless chatter of monkeys.” — Timothy Bax Copy Share Image
“There is no animal that can intimidate a lion to act against his will.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“If a lion could talk, we could not understand him,' the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once said. 'It's clear that Wittgenstein hadn't spent much time… — John Gray Copy Share Image
A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different. — Frans Lanting Copy Share Image
“I have a lion inside me, and I had to feed it words every few days; when I don't, it begins to eat me… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
“Odd, though, all these dealings of mine with myself. First I’ve agreed a principle with myself, now I’m making out a case to myself,… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green. — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
“Why did *I* lock the door? Why did YOU lock the door? Someone locked the door...” — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now. — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else. — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
“He felt lonely. His solitude was thrown into relief by being observed.” — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
“Yes, and you’ve never been able to understand the suggestiveness of paradox and contradiction. That’s your problem. You live and breathe paradox and contradiction,… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who met them… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
“Early spring, yes. It's one of those cautiously hopeful days at the beginning of April, after the clocks have made their great leap forward… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
“Bohr: Heisenberg, I have to say - if people are to be measured strictly in terms of observable quantities... Heisenberg: Then we should need… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image